More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 58

The fox when he came to the farmer's gate, Who should he see but the farmer's drake; "I love you well for your master's sake, And long to be picking your bones, e-ho!"

Who acts: fox, ducks · What happens: come, see, love, pick · To what, where: you, bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, ducks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 farmer	case
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 see	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 drake	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farmer	det
18	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drake	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 farmer	case
20	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 love	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 love	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 love	nsubj
24	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 love	obj
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 love	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 sake	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 master	nmod:poss
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sake	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 master	case
31	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 love	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 long	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 long	cc
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	37 picking	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 picking	aux
37	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 long	advcl
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bones	nmod:poss
39	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 picking	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 e-ho	punct
41	e-ho	e-ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bones	conj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fox			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	should			to the farmer's gate	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	love in a quote	present	the ducks and the geese = duck	you	for your master's sake; well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus for sake=Attribute
4	pick in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive		your bones and e-ho		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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